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Message-Id: <1175782151.3714.13.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:09:10 -0500 From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Mike Miller <mike.miller@...com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Perverting cciss On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:58:06AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > this patch adds the SG_IO ioctl to the cciss driver. > > As the driver is capable of sending SCSI CDBs to the controller there is > > no reason why we shouldn't exploit it. > > This way we get to use all the nice sg_utils for the cciss driver. > > And a persistent device name for free. > > Instead of adding yet another implementation of SG_IO please implement > support for REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests and add all the nice block layer > passthrough ioctls to it. Actually, I happen to know that HP is in the process of implementing this correctly (via REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC). I can't reveal the details but it has something to do with a well known Linux High Availability company needing SG_IO for sg_persist to work ... James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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